From the AP, via the NYT:

A woman convicted just weeks ago of being the ''D.C. madam'' hanged herself Thursday, apparently making good on her vow never to go to prison for running a high-end Washington prostitution ring.

The body of Deborah Jeane Palfrey was found in a shed near her mother's manufactured home about 20 miles northwest of Tampa. Police said the 52-year-old left a suicide note, but they did not disclose its contents. The mother found Palfrey, who had apparently hanged herself with nylon rope from the shed's ceiling.

Officers were outside the mother's white and pink home in the community of mostly retirees.

Must get pic of pink and white shed. And rope. Need rope.

Any guesses how her suicide note read?

Let's see.

She's a Madam, and has information on hundreds of very important and influential clients.

And she's threatened to reveal it.

And now she's dead.

By suicide.

Umm... yeah.  OK.  I believe it was suicide.  Sure.

Send in the cleaners.

Last edited by whosasailorthen (2008-05-01 19:45:21)

A woman convicted just weeks ago of being the ''D.C. madam''

As Ken Lay has taught us the absolutely best time to die is after a Fedral conviction and before a sentencing. The charge is vacated as if they never existed and all fines and levys on the profits of your enterprise can not be coillected.

If you can't manage to arrange a permnanent absence it is also the best time to skip town as the penalties are the least.

She was facing 55 years in prison. She was a whore and she got caught and she couldn't do the time.  End of story.  No conspiracy.

I can't help but thinking that somehow, SOMEHOW, Richard Nixon was involved.

fnord wrote:

It’s only a coincidence when people who threaten the rich and powerful commit suicide or die suddenly.  The fact that it happens so often only shows that coincidence is a bigger part of life than most people realize.

Fnord's a closet Jungian, it would seem.

headkicker_girl wrote:

She was facing 55 years in prison. She was a whore and she got caught and she couldn't do the time.  End of story.  No conspiracy.

Wtf are you talking about? This is white collar crime where you get to spend a few years hobknobing in a Martha Stewart dorm with corporate scoflaws, money launderers. and mostly overeducated but well mannered drug kingpin wannabes.

With a clean prior record and no violence she would have qualified for a number of reduction points in the federal sentancing guidlines. Her biggest hit on the point reduction would be being the head of a conspiracy.48 months max.

What do you have against whores anyway?

Channing Phillips, the spokesman for the U.S. attorney's office in the District of Columbia, said that under sentencing guidelines, Palfrey faced about five or six years in prison. She was free while she awaited sentencing on July 24

Last edited by Johnny_Rotten (2008-05-02 02:20:05)

I thougnt it was already released to various news angencies. Doesn't Flynt have a copy of her raw telephone records? It is mostly just numbers and dates though and that take lots of research to generate actual tele account holders  and real names of clients. Especially for old tele account  records that are not current and may have been deleted from billing databases after the federaly mandated holding period.

Maybe she planted a body double and, under the cover of night with the help of a renegade CIA agent, has escaped with untold millions to Bermuda where, with the otherworldly assistance of Anna Nicole Smith communicating through a vision of the Virgin Mary on a tortilla, she now lives in a secret island hideaway where she indulges her lascivious passions for scorching lesbo sex with hordes of hot, horny biker chicks and albino eunuch dwarfs.

You never know.

Taint- Maybe she planted a body double and, under the cover of night with the help of a renegade CIA agent, has escaped with untold millions to Bermuda where, with the otherworldly assistance of Anna Nicole Smith communicating through a vision of the Virgin Mary on a tortilla, she now lives in a secret island hideaway where she indulges her lascivious passions for scorching lesbo sex with hordes of hot, horny biker chicks and albino eunuch dwarfs.

You never know.

Pfff, utterly ridiculous. While if you get down real low it is quite possible to hear the otherworldy utternces of Ms. Smith, everyone knows it is nearly impossible to understand them.

Last edited by Johnny_Rotten (2008-05-02 04:56:12)

tojo2000 wrote:

She was convicted of money laundering, racketeering, and illegal use of the mail system.  The expected sentence last year was 4 to 8 years, but the maximum sentence if she was to serve all convictions end-to-end was 55 years.  Though most of the bobbleheads I heard talking about it didn't think she'd get the max, she was certainly looking at a few years in federal prison, and she'd been there before, so she knew what she was in for.  Her lawyer no doubt explained the risks to her.  Maybe she didn't want to live even five or six years in prison.

Exactly.  As Pale said, this was a bitch who was used to taking the easy way out.  She didn't have to be a whore.  She could have worked a legitimate job rather than engaging in a criminal enterprise.

I couldn't do 6 years in federal prison, but I've made the choice to live a clean life so it's not very likely that I'll ever face that option.  Most whores are not smart, stable, emotionally balanced women anyway, so I don't see why anyone is so surprised that she once again too the easy way out.

Fled wrote:

Wow.  I usually don't tee off on anyone, least of all you HK, but where did you get this streak of righteous indignation, anyway?  Nobody "has" to be anything other than a lump of flesh.  Legitimate job?  A lot of jobs are fucking stupid, have little purpose other than to wring money out of others, to make or sell useless or harmful products, shuffle paper, etc.  Other than standing on mere legality, what makes running an escort/call girl service so much less "legitimate" than a million other occupations?  (Just to cut off an argument, I do not frequent, have never made use of, any such service.)  It is legal to be an absolute shit landlord, or to lobby for any number of exploitive and detrimental interests, or to be Sean Hannity, so why is this so bad?  I think we waste our resources banning and policing what is often referred to as "the oldest profession."

Oh, I also wanted to congratulate you on living a "clean" life.  Three fucking cheers for you.  That said, I still love you.

I didn't make the rules.  I just follow them because I can't accept the consequences of doing otherwise.  There is no "righteous indignation" here.  If some bitch wants to wear her pussy out at the Bunny Ranch or any LEGAL venue of prostitution, I'm all for it.  But don't fucking whine when you do something ILLEGAL and get caught...fucking suck it up like Heidi Fleiss did.

headkicker_girl wrote:

She was facing 55 years in prison. She was a whore and she got caught and she couldn't do the time.  End of story.  No conspiracy.

Of course there's the story of the defendant, an elderly man, who had been convicted of grand theft. In sentencing the judge gave him 30 years.  The old man moaned to the judge "Hell, your honor, I'll never live that long!"  to which the judge replied "That's fine.  We only ask that you do your best."

fnord wrote:

A list of people connected to the Bush family whose deaths were convenient coincidences.

At least that will stop people from harping on Vince Foster all the time. Was there no room on that page for the other 4000+ American corpses Dubya is responsible for?

tojo2000 wrote:

Those weren't all that mysterious.

Tell that to the Tillman family.

headkicker_girl wrote:

She was facing 55 years in prison. She was a whore and she got caught and she couldn't do the time.  End of story.  No conspiracy.

A LARGE number (possibly majority?) of D.C. professionals have Juris Doctorate degrees.  It was not ONLY politicos that had something to worry about.  You don't need a Zapruder film to connect the dots on this one.  Seems to be a Spitzer blowback to me.

                                                                             

How so? power and sex go as far back as the flint and the kindling

sic wrote:

A LARGE number (possibly majority?) of D.C. professionals have Juris Doctorate degrees.  It was not ONLY politicos that had something to worry about.  You don't need a Zapruder film to connect the dots on this one.  Seems to be a Spitzer blowback to me.

Evidence?  Anyone ever heard of it?   Sure someone COULD have killed her, but the only evidence is your imagination, which, again, does not stand up in a court of law.

headkicker_girl wrote:

sic wrote:

A LARGE number (possibly majority?) of D.C. professionals have Juris Doctorate degrees.  It was not ONLY politicos that had something to worry about.  You don't need a Zapruder film to connect the dots on this one.  Seems to be a Spitzer blowback to me.

Evidence?  Anyone ever heard of it?   Sure someone COULD have killed her, but the only evidence is your imagination, which, again, does not stand up in a court of law.

Not to mention that she as much as said that she would do anything to avoid going to prison again.  I believe the words were something to the effect of "I'm sure as heck not going to do one day of prison time, much less four to eight years."**

**I'm too lazy to look upt the exact words, but it was pretty close.

headkicker_girl wrote:

sic wrote:

A LARGE number (possibly majority?) of D.C. professionals have Juris Doctorate degrees.  It was not ONLY politicos that had something to worry about.  You don't need a Zapruder film to connect the dots on this one.  Seems to be a Spitzer blowback to me.

Evidence?  Anyone ever heard of it?   Sure someone COULD have killed her, but the only evidence is your imagination, which, again, does not stand up in a court of law.

Just needs a bit of time.  The 'suicide' is still warm.  This will more than likely get swept under the rug, but in time, someday, the records will be (re)opened.  From a historical perspective, at least 15 years has to pass before anyone is willing to talk, or facts can be verified.  There are many books that are hitting the market now about late '70s early '80s drug running and who was involved.  Some of the (CRAZY) theories of yesteryear aren't looking so odd...{a'hem/crack/a'hem}

Give me shit if you like, but the fact is that the Tuskegee experiments DID happen.  The Government can and will _________....

Last edited by choad (2008-08-16 09:49:19)

headkicker_girl wrote:

jesusluvspegging wrote:

Come here, I have something magic to show you.  Don't worry, everyone does this, but it's VERY important that you don't tell anyone.


...seriously, though, all digs at naiveté aside, at the very least you HAVE to admit that this deserves a thorough and impartial (like such a thing exists in any of the various US police forces (federal, state, or local (note nested parentheticals: drunk geek)) these days) investigation.

No, I would disagree that this merits a serious investigation.  Ken Starr thought the Clintons merited a a thorough investigation and he came up with jack shit at the taxpayers expense. 

If it looks like a suicide, it's a suicide unless the forensic evidence suggests otherwise.

and jesus loves you and kitty is in heaven now

Interesting world...A "Madam" in the Victorian sense of the word, in charge of the best game in town {D-friggin'-C} ends up dead.  Yeah, business as usuall, nothing to see here...
                                                         

Last edited by sic (2008-05-03 00:25:00)

sic wrote:

Interesting world...A "Madam" in the Victorian sense of the word, in charge of the best game in town {D-friggin'-C} ends up dead.  Yeah, business as usuall, nothing to see here...

Yeah, it's not like hookers and porn stars have an unusually high suicide rate or anything...

jesusluvspegging wrote:

headkicker_girl wrote:

sic wrote:

Interesting world...A "Madam" in the Victorian sense of the word, in charge of the best game in town {D-friggin'-C} ends up dead.  Yeah, business as usuall, nothing to see here...

Yeah, it's not like hookers and porn stars have an unusually high suicide rate or anything...

STOP PEEIN IN OUR FUN GODDAMN IT.

ok, that one came out all caps.  either that earlier comment i wondered about the caps on was fucking hallucinatory and i did capitalize the first letter of teach "word" (i typoed that wrod but thought y'all won'dt believe it because of the quotation marks  so i actually fixed it) or the caps-breaking algorithm is fucking complex is hell.

and yes i've edited thuis as i fucked up parallel structure real bad

Last edited by jesusluvspegging (2008-05-03 01:02:01)